Money to Burn (Smoking Addiction in general)

Member Name: emmaball

Product:	Smoking Addiction in general
Date:	18/04/02 (84 review reads)
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Advantages: none really

Disadvantages: kills you, expensive, make you smell like an ashtray

I smoked my first cigarette at the age of 11. Looking back I think it was a mixture of curiosity and "everyone else is doing it so why can't I?" syndrome.

I am now 23 and am smoking around 10 a day (not that much too some people but too many for me). I have started having to take my asthma inhaler more than I have ever needed to and this is really quite frightening.

About a month ago I decided to give up. I lasted for two weeks (an unmitigated failure). I was fine until I went to a hen night and got drunk, my friend was sitting next to me and smoking a cigarette and I asked if I could pinch one. I thought one would be okay and that I would be able to take it or leave it (wrong). That one cigarette led to a further five that night. I then went another week without smoking, then came the wedding, again very drunk and around smokers, I caved in. Since then I have bought two packets of cigarettes and have cut down to about 3 a day. I still feel like a failure.

For me smoking is about habits aswell as nicotine addiction. I found I missed smoking more in certain situations. For me these were the pub, while talking on the phone and before I went to bed. I didn't want to avoid the pub because I figured that I would just start smoking again when I went back to it (how perceptive) so instead I tried to do all the things I would normally do without the cigarettes. I even went outside with the smokers during my coffee break at uni (miraculously this one didn't bother me).

Smoking is truly the disgusting habit that you are told it is as a child. It makes your breath, clothes, hair and house stink and you also get charged for the privilege. I would probably have a heart attack if I tried to calculate how much I have spent on fags over the last 12 years. I am skint at the moment (near the end of my degree, lots of debt) so this is really a great incentive to quit.

For those of you reading this who
don't smoke - you are very clever not to, don't try it. What you haven't tried you can't miss (my boyfriend is living proof of this, he has never smoked).

For those who do I wish I could have told you a new and easy way to quit, but I can't. In a weeks time I intend to stop smoking (again) if I uncover any miracles I will keep you posted.

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